Sentences with phrase «high abundance»

They strongly selected for areas recently burnt by intense fires, but only in habitats that typically support high abundance of small mammals.

Kamote leaves are in high abundance of vitamin C.

What we know of the connection between solar activity and radiation, coupled with high abundances of isotopes in tree - rings and ice - cores (Fig. 2d), supports the likely case that during the Maunder Minimum solar activity remained for over half a century at very low levels.

Later summer surveys by Brodeur's group found very high abundances of juvenile hake off northern Oregon and southern Washington, which is highly unusual and suggests that many of the commercially important fish survived beyond the larval stage.

Several of the stars boast unusually high abundances of the heavy elements yttrium and strontium, which the team think formed in earlier generations of fast - spinning stars.

Fish surveys at these depths around the northernmost atolls revealed an extremely high abundance of species found only in the Hawaiian Islands.

Clade D Symbiodinium are present in higher abundances on some reefs than others, and these are often reefs exposed to relatively high levels of thermal stress or local stressors (e.g., sedimentation on reefs) with a history of coral bleaching.

Especially proteinaceous marine gels became smaller but more abundant probably because they served as a nutritional substrate in the sea - surface microlayer, where higher abundances of microorganisms were more efficient in degrading the organic material accumulated during a phytoplankton bloom.

Monitoring by Natural Resources South Australian Murray - Darling Basin in February 2015 identified high abundances of Murray Hardyhead in Dishers Creek and Berri disposal basin.

However, the resolution of the LEND instrument is greater than the size of most PFS, so smaller PFS slopes, perhaps approaching yards in size, may have significantly higher abundances, and indications are that the greatest hydrogen concentrations are within the permanently shaded regions, according to McClanahan.

His recent study published in Nature Communications characterized one protein, valosin - containing protein (VCP) that Qi's research team found in high abundance inside nerve cell mitochondria.

An abundance of Bacteroidales was associated with more rapid disease progression, with patients at high abundance having median PFS of 188 days, while those with lower levels of the bacterium had median PFS of 393 days.

Such reactions at hydrothermal vents and in other extreme environments on Earth produce high abundances of hydrogen, which some microbes use for food.

«We have shown that the proposed development area supports particularly high abundances of juvenile salmon from more than 40 populations that are harvested in at least 10 First Nations territories throughout the Skeena watershed and beyond.

Studying the spectra of the stars, the researchers found unexpectedly high abundances of the heavy elements strontium (Sr) and yttrium (Y).

It will also study solid and gaseous samples for other chemical signs of past or present life, such as a very high abundance ratio of methane to heavier hydrocarbons (ethane, propane, butane) and chirality (a preference for either left - handed or right - handed organic molecules).

The oxazetidine amino acid is formally an oxidized form of serine, which has a relatively high abundance and can replace other amino acid residues without affecting the overall folding or function of proteins.

Finally the equal or higher abundances toward low mass young stellar objects compared with high mass objects and the correlation studies support this formation pathway as well, but not the two competing theories: formation from CH3OH and formation in gas phase with subsequent freeze - out.

Coconut palm trees are in high abundance throughout the world, most of which are not even being used for either sap or coconuts!

In northeastern Minnesota, moose populations reached an historic high abundance of 8,840 in 2006, and then rapidly declined to 4,230 in 2012.

«We can say confidently that if pathogens are in there, they are not there in very high abundance,» said Kostas Konstantinidis, an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech.

During their investigations, the research team came to the surprising result that has been published in the journal Geology: 2.7 billion years ago, seawater contained an unusually high abundance of the radioactive isotope Hafnium 176 but a comparably low abundance of the radioactive isotope Neodymium 143, similar to what can be observed in present day seawater.

The 27,000 - square - mile reservation straddling parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah has an extremely high abundance of many energy resources — particularly coal.

Other processes also create fluorine, but not enough to explain such high abundances, the astronomers conclude.

Metallicity & Giant Planets - A three - year spectroscopic survey of 12 stars orbited by giant planets shows that they have high abundances of elements heavier than helium, typically two to three times that of our sun, Sol.

Cause really accretion and a nearby second generation star going supernova disturbing a dust cloud thus explaining our high abundance of higher elements seems like a very excellent explanation.

The elevated spring flows that improved the recruitment of semi-aquatic bank vegetation may explain the higher abundance of Murray River rainbow fish, listed as threatened in Victoria (as well as carp spawning and recruitment).

Many investigations in Europe and North America provide evidence that generally, organically managed soils exhibit a higher abundance and species number than conventionally - managed plots or farms43 (see Figure 2).

A study in California comparing conventional with organic tomato fields showed a higher abundance of natural enemies and greater richness of species in organic tomato fields.

Various HMO sugar types and concentrations influence bacterial diversity, keeping strains of Bifidobacterium longum subsp infantis in highest abundance in the first few months of life and preventing pathogens from binding to the gut [20].

Formula - fed babies have a more diverse and rich microbiome than breast - fed babies, with lower numbers of Bifidobacterium and higher abundances of Peptostreptococcaceae, which includes C. difficile [10, 23](Figure 4, right).

There are basically two types of lines, those produced by collisions between the atoms or ions and the electrons in the surrounding gas, which are called collision lines, and which are very bright for elements such as oxygen, nitrogen and neon, and lines which are produced when ions capture free electrons, which are called recombination lines, and which are bright only for those gases with the highest abundances in the interstellar medium: hydrogen and helium.

The timing of the first appearances of the resistant genes in the health service corresponds to the timing of their highest abundance in soil.

«We don't know all of the variables that contribute to the higher abundance, but higher reproduction rates are clearly part of the picture,» Frank says.

But for Pretty, hunters are part of our connection to nature: «The places with the highest abundances of wildlife have also been where people have gathered from the wild over centuries.»

Comparing the conjunctival microbiota with that in the skin under the eye, researchers found that the conjunctiva of non-contact lens wearers had a higher abundance of the bacteria Haemophilus, Neisseria, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Rothia, and Corynebacterium and lower abundance of Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Sphingobium, and Methylobacterium.

They saw that the star has a high abundance of elements with even atomic numbers compared with odd ones.

However, small native bees did not have high abundance nor appear to have high visitation rates.

«A stable and healthy reef includes a high abundance and diversity of predatory fish and a relatively low number of herbivorous and small prey fish,» says study lead author April Boaden, a PhD student at the Coral CoE.

These bacteria may just be at too low a level to have an effect on the disease, but augmenting them to higher abundances may provide a beneficial effect,» Hoyt said.

They reported that samples from ICU patients showed lower levels of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes bacteria, two of the largest groups of microbes in the gut, and higher abundances of Proteobacteria, which include many pathogens.

«If we saw a high abundance of wasps in one year, numbers are likely to be lower in the following year,» explains co-author Dr John Haywood from Victoria's School of Mathematics and Statistics.

While coral reefs provide shelter from predators, reef fish have a critical job to do in return: They eat algae that, in high abundance, kill corals.